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sealpress: A model for Clairol hair-color and Italian Vogue,…

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sealpress: A model for Clairol hair-color and Italian Vogue, Tracey Norman was the first black transgender model.  She was the face of one of the hair-colors for Clairol’s “Born Beautiful Line, #512, Dark Auburn. “They used my box for six years, because they said it was the hottest-selling box,” said Norman. Thousands of Clairol customers were emulating the look, and affirming the beauty, of a transgender woman.” Like so many trans models before and since, Tracey had to hide her identity from her employers, and despite the acceptance of people who knew, she was eventually outed and forced to leave to US to find work, where she modeled for two years in Paris and Milan. After returning to New York, she became…

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queerhawkeye: bakongo: “To J.K. Rowling, From Cho…

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queerhawkeye: bakongo: “To J.K. Rowling, From Cho Chang” Video here: [x] Full transcription here: [x][Caption: a set of eight gifs where Rachel Rostad, the author of the poem, is speaking on a microphone. She is frowning, indignant, maybe angry. “Ms. Rowling, I know you’re just the latest participant in a long tradition of turning Asian women into a tragic fetish. Madame Butterfly. Japanese woman falls in love with a white soldier, is abandoned, kills herself. Miss Saigon. Vietnamese woman falls in love with a white soldier, is abandoned, kills herself. Memoirs Of A Geisha. Lucy Liu in leather. Schoolgirl porn.” At this, she shrugs; “Let me fulfill your diversity quota. Just one more brown girl mourning her white hero. No wonder Harry Potter’s got yellow…